Film
Medea
Newly restored
Fri, Feb 7, 2014
- 2PM
- 7PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 110min
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $13
MEMBERS: $8 (Movie Moguls free)
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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Intro by Wayne Koestenbaum
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February 2014
Friday February 07, 2014
Performances no longer available.
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2014
series Vengeance is Hers
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1969
With Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Margaret Clementi
“Brilliant and brutal.”
—The New York Times
Superstar opera diva Maria Callas portrays the avenging sorceress of Greek legend in Pasolini’s primitivist retelling of Euripides’ tragedy. Spurned by her lover Jason, pagan priestess Medea unleashes a maelstrom of bloodshed. Italian iconoclast Pasolini’s heady mix of mythology, Marxism, and magic distills the tale to its most abstract and elemental, while Callas, in a nearly wordless performance, is electrifying as the woman who rains fire on her enemies.
Screening in a 35mm restoration.
In Italian with English subtitles
Talks
Introduction
by Wayne Koestenbaum
The 7pm screening will be introduced by writer Wayne Koestenbaum
(The Queen’s Throat).
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